Inquiry following Savile scandal not a witch hunt, insists UK police chief

Britain’s most senior police officer has dismissed claims that the investigation prompted by the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal has turned into a witch hunt.

It follows comments by former newspaper tycoon Eddy Shah, recently cleared of raping a schoolgirl in the 1990s, who also told BBC Radio 5 Live at the weekend that the inquiry was mostly “based on emotion”.